Connections

The word "VERSUS" appears in big fat letters right on the screen before the fight scene with the main actor from the movie Versus.

Tak Sakaguchi appears at the end of the movie as the Prisoner he played in Versus.

Rival Samurai facing back to back during battle. Hero bringing there sword across their face, and breathing at the same time

Several references to Versus (directed by this game's cutscene director), such as the way Snake points his gun at Baker.

Owen wears a "Versus" t-shirt.

Use of "The Sergio Leone" close-up.

When the head Yakuza goes to cut that guy's face with his kinfe he says, "Don't fuck with me." This is like the scene in The Harder They Come where Jimmy Cliff cuts up another guy's face after saying the same line.

The villian puts together a sword from a suitcase right before the final battle just like in Highlander

The three-lasers-as-triangle on the Hero's sword in the epilogue.

When the hero puts on the trenchcoat and sunglasses it mirrors the scene where Arnold Schwarzenneger gets his clothes